The GEF Experience in Financing Technology Transfer: Overview

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The GEF Experience in Financing Technology
Transfer Overview

• Sub-regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points
• Europe and CIS
• Dubrovnik, Croatia, 11-13 February 2009

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GEF Policies and Strategies on Technology Transfer

• From the pilot phase to GEF-1 (1991-98)
• Demonstrating a wide range of technologies to
  reduce GHG emissions, both long-term and
  short-term
• From GEF-2 to GEF-3 (1998-06)
• Removing barriers to the widespread adoption of
  energy efficiency, renewable energy, and urban
  transport technologies and practices
• GEF-4 (2006-10)
• More focused strategic programs to achieve large
  benefits of GHG reductions
• ?GEF has been engaged in technology transfer
  since its creation.
• ? GEFs approach has conformed closely to the
  Conventions technology transfer framework.

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GEF Support of Climate Change Technology Transfer

• Allocated about 2.5b for climate change
  projects, with 15b in co-financing
• Provided financial support to national
  communications, technology needs assessments, and
  mitigation and adaptation projects to over 130
  countries
• Supported deployment and diffusion of more than
  30 climate-friendly technologies

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GEF-4 Strategic Programs for Climate Change
Mitigation

• Energy-efficient buildings and appliances
• Energy efficiency in the industrial sector
• Market approaches to renewable energy
• Sustainable energy production from biomass
• Innovative systems for sustainable urban
  transport
• Land use, land-use change, and forestry

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Examples of Technolgies

• Renewable Energy
• Building-integrated photovoltaic power production
• Stationary fuel-cell power generation
• Residential Energy Efficiency
• Lighting and appliances
• District heating systems
• Industrial Energy Efficiency
• High efficiency industrial boilers
• Sustainable Urban Transport
• Traffic demand management
• Bus Rapid Transit Systems

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Convention Guidance to GEF on Technology Transfer

• Convention Article 4.5
• developed country Parties and other developed
  Parties included in Annex II shall take all
  practicable steps to promote, facilitate and
  finance, as appropriate, the transfer of, or
  access to, environmentally sound technologies and
  know-how to other Parties, particularly
  developing country Parties, to enable them to
  implement the provisions of the Convention.
• Convention Article 11
• A mechanism for the provision of financial
  resources on a grant or concessional basis,
  including for the transfer of technology, is
  hereby defined. It shall function under the
  guidance of and be accountable to the Conference
  of the Parties, which shall decide on its
  policies, program priorities and eligibility
  criteria related to this Convention.
• Convention guidance to GEF since COP 1 on
  technology transfer

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Poznan Strategic Programme on Technology Transfer

• Support for technology needs assessments (TNAs)
• Support for priority pilot projects
• Dissemination of successfully demonstrated
  climate-friendly technologies

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Technology Needs Assessments

• Implementation process
• Planning process started in Dec 2008
• First stakeholder planning meeting in Jan 2009
• Global project by UNEP to start in March 2009
• Field testing the revised TNA Handbook with 5-10
  countries
• Progress report to SBI 30 and COP 15
• More countries to be supported for preparing and
  updating their TNA based on their request

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Concluding Remarks

• GEF has been a financial mechanism for technology
  transfer since it was created 18 years ago.
• As financial mechanism of the Convention, GEF has
  been one of the largest public funder of
  technology transfer for climate change
  mitigation.
• GEF has provided support for TNAs and other
  enabling activities to more than 130 developing
  countries.
• Preparation of second round of TNAs is underway.
• GEF has supported the deployment, diffusion, and
  transfer of more than 30 climate change
  mitigation technologies in over 50 countries.
• GEF will continue to respond to Convention
  guidance and scale up its support for technology
  transfer in the future.

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Contact Information

• Dr. Robert K. Dixon
• Leader, Climate and Chemicals Team
• Global Environment Facility
• Email rdixon1_at_thegef.org
• Tel. [phone]
• Website www.TheGEF.org